We see many iOS developers joining Apple’s move to donate to Japan disaster relief fund by donating all revenue of apps to Red Cross America. Now Valve is also doing a similar event. From now till April 6, players of Team Fortress 2 can buy limited edition items, and money collected from these items will go directly to Red Cross America’s Japanese disaster relief fund.

Valve is introducing three limited edition hats and two special noisemakers to the Mann Co. store. The “Humanitarian’s Hachimaki” ($7.99), the “Benefactor’s Kanmuri” ($19.99) and the most prestigious “Magnanimous Monarch” ($99.99) will be available from now through April 6. The hats can be equipped by all classes; however, they cannot be traded or used for crafting.

After April 6, none of these items will be available in any form. It’s good to see that many companies are participating in this relief fund activity for good causes.

SOURCE via Team Fortress Official Page

It appears that some new owners of the brand new 2011 MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt have been facing an annoying issue. It appears that if the laptop is heavily under stress than it’ll randomly crash. Here’s what a user said:

“Received a new 15″ 2.2/6750M MBP last week and have been having some issues with the machine locking up under load.

For example if I boot up a VM using Fusion the temperature will spike up above 90 degrees and the machine will lock up most of the time. The machine appears locked (cannot move the mouse at all and keyboard is unresponsive). I can SSH into the machine still and it still is running however. This is one example but it will freeze under a number of circumstances where the CPU/GPU load is very high (rendering, DJ Software, compiling so far in my travels).”

Thus far speculations are saying that the issue is related to the graphics driver or power management, and it seems the issue is reliably reproducible. Apple is reportedly aware of the issue, but no reliable solution has been provided. They’re probably waiting for Intel’s response.

SOURCE via Mac Rumors

Many might not know the graphics card manufacturer AFOX Corps, but they’re here since 2008 and they cater mostly towards Far-East markets such as Japan and Hong Kong. The company has unveiled a new AMD Radeon HD 6850 1 GB graphics card that sports a single-slot design, and completely relies on the PCI Express slot for power. Yes, there’s no need for any 6-pin PCI-E power cable, unlike conventional Radeon HD 6850 graphics cards which feature double-slot coolers, and require a 6-pin PCI-E power input.

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Samsung’s next generation Galaxy S smartphone, the Galaxy S II is just around the horizon, but we couldn’t wait. And thanks to the gang at gagadget from Ukraine, we get to see the Android phone itself, albeit in a language that I can’t understand. Not sure why they compared the Galaxy S II to the iPhone 3GS and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, probably the nearest available Android handset and iPhone around, thus the comparison is not ideal. But it’s still an acceptable video review, as they show you abit of the latest and notorious TouchWiz UI from Samsung, and the 8-Megapixel autofocus camera on the back.

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All these while nobody actually took Archos’s Android tablets seriously, but things are about to change, well at least Archos hope it will. Apparently Archos is preparing some very tasty dual-core Honeycomb tablets for a June 2011 release. These tablets will be packed with a 1.6GHz ARM A9 dual-core chip, up to 250GB of HDD or 32GB of SSD, and a patent-pending “disruptive 3G modem”, whatever that means. The tablet will cost around €400, which seemed reasonable. Archos’ fiendish plan is to steal some of the iPad 2′s market pie to munch, but June is still some time to go, and looking at how Archos tablets performed previously, they’ll need more than just fancy specs to give a decent exercising fight with Apple’s iPad 2.

SOURCE via Le Journal Du Geek

We all know that Apple is facing shortage of supply for their iPad 2, and they’re also getting ready to launch the new iPad in 25 more countries tomorrow. So they did everything they could to increase the supply, and one of them is to strictly monitor the return rate of the iPad 2, especially since iPad 2 buyers are experiencing problems and returning them in a huge number rate. That’s where the funny story comes from.

Apple is paying close attention to all iPad 2 returned during the first few weeks to make sure there are no major production defects, and according to one of the site’s sources, Apple staff found something they weren’t quite expecting.

“One iPad came back with a post-it-note on it that said: ‘Wife said no’,” they said.

Apparently the wife isn’t notified of the husband’s fondness of the new iPad, and isn’t very happy about it. The returned product, with the note, was flagged as something funny before being noticed by two executives further up the chain. And how did they respond?

“They sent the guy an iPad 2 with a note on it that said: ‘Apple said yes’,” the source said.

Good grief! Let the battle begin!

SOURCE via news.com.au

The PS3 and Xbox 360 had them earlier, but the PC platform had their fair share slightly later. Why? Well, this video will explain why. Besides the changes to the control, they also gave a multi-display support to the PC version. Of course, if the new feature is not given an exercise, then it’ll be a waste. Thanks to the glorious PC Master Race, you’ll know how it feels like to game in a resolution of 5760 x 1080.

On the record, the widest mainstream cinema release of all time was Ben Hur, at 2.93:1. This video was recorded on 5.3:1. Now this is why you need an uber rig, and a multi-display setup, because this is how you game in style.

SOURCE via Kotaku